Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.
It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.
It takes a community to start a revolution.
As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.
Just moving one keyboard or synth is a pain in the ass.
My mother's Cubana/Irish and my dad's Catalan. And that blows my mind.